The group, finally healthy (with the exception of Thomas, who came down with an unfortunate case of food poisoning moments earlier), head to the newspaper to track down their lead. They find it on fire. The same kind of fire from the train.
Re-Barbara is standing over the fire. She is clearly summoning the same “fire vampires” from the train attack.
She dies as a spear pierces her head. A strange man threw it. He says nothing to them, but lets them follow him into an old part of town and into a one room hut, where an old man is mediating inside. Their guide explains that he is there to protect the old man, who is “not there” at the moment. Brenden, not known for being quick witted, points out the man is actually there.
Gene obsesses over an eldritch symbol in the hut and accidentally calls the Red Sign. This causes the old meditating man to convulse, leading to the room no longer being part of any universe, leading to Johann sticking his foot outside of the universe and losing his foot, which he now never remembers having.
Marvolo gets a chameleon.
The next day Johann has a new foot. It is a gross foot. Some might say it is a ghoul-like foot. He always remembers having this foot. Gene offers to make him a shoe for this foot. The group discovers Gene never actually knew how to make shoes, despite a lifelong career as a cobbler.
The group heads to the Mountain of the Black Wind. They pose as cultists of the Bloody Tongue. There are lots of other cultists there. The group tries to coyly ask questions. A cult member talks about the ceremony happening that night, and the investigators all nod knowingly, trying not to blow their cover. Brenden asks about the ceremony, blowing their cover. Marvolo explains that Brenden is stupid and to ignore him.
The cultists all get naked. So do the investigators.
M’weru appears. She summons Nyarlothotep. He appears enormous in the aspect of the bloody tongue and begins crushing cultists at random. Those who are chosen feel lucky to be sacrificed to their God. The rest pass through his giant legs upward through the mountain.
Harvey loses what little grip on sanity he has left and realizes he has always been a devoted servant of the bloody tongue. Brenden Kyle, a farmer from Kansas, realizes he has a fear of crowds but in the excitement of what is happening follows the thousands of cultists up through the mountain. Marvolo discovers he has a fear of being alone, making it a much easier sell to ascend the mountain with the crowd of cultists. Gene follows, somehow still sane after all this time. Unsure of what else to do, Johann, sane as can be expected, follows as well.
Tam Toomey leaves.
They enter a large temple deep in the heart of the mountain. They find Hypatia Masters sprawled on a dais, pregnant and bursting with the spawn of Nyarlothotep. They see the spawn’s eyes through the thin membrane of her stomach.
The cultists begin to kill each other in ecstasy, led initially by Marvolo. Hypatia’s head explodes, and the spawn rips through the membrane of her stomach to emerge into the world. It slowly morphs into a perverted form of Hypatia Masters. Nyarlothotep reappears and screams in pleasure before transforming into the black wind and tearing out of the mountain across the night.
Tam gets tossed by the black wind on her way back to the village, but because she is “sturdy” she does not move very much.
The sight of all this finally ends Gene’s grip on sanity, and Marvolo follows him. Harvey, already permanently insane, has begun lifting naked cultists and dropping them into death pits of snakes and rats and fire ants. He also takes any books from them as possible. Gene, his hammer blessed with the deadly sacrifice of that shopkeeper in JuJu house, sacrifices his fellow cult members to the great god of the bloody tongue. Nyarlothotep is pleased.
The permanently insane Marvolo joins in, opening the cage to the chameleon, which immediately grows dozens of feet tall and licks up a hundred cultists with it’s enormous tongue, swallowing them.
Unfortunately, one of those cultists happens to be Gene, and his illustrious investigation into his friend Jackson Elias’s murder ends with him being swallowed by a comically large chameleon before it winks out of existence.
Brenden, in a rare moment of bewilderment and sanity, takes this cue to get the fuck out. Meanwhile, Johann, having somehow used his police instincts to prevent himself from accepting the insanity of what he was witnessing, tries to go attack the spawn of Nyarlathotep.
He takes aim and shoots one perfect bullet with his revolver between the glowing yellow eyes of the demented form of Hypatia Masters. Purple and black sludge seeps from the bullet’s entry and exit holes. The creature’s neck snaps a bit….
And then Hypatia’s left eyelid slowly droops down and a tentacle covered in dripping teeth and maws emerges and snaps around Johann, killing him instantly. It pulls him back into that gaping eye lid, squeezing him into liquid form as it slowly consumes him.
Only his grotesque, ghoul-like foot remains. It spasms once on the ground beside the evil spawn. And then it remains still forever.
Tam finds an airplane at the town as well as dynamite, because of course she does. She flies the airplane directly into the mountain and lands it. She grabs the dynamite and heads up into the temple. There she finds cultists finally collapsing in exhausted ecstasy, their ritual night of sacrifices leading to the spawn of a god finally ending. Harvey is still piling bodies into the sacrifice pits to his enjoyment.
Spotting her, the insane Marvolo tries to use his remaining bullet from his elephant gun to kill her. The gun backfires, clearly not having been kept clean by Harvey previously, and Marvolo collapses to the ground.
Tam takes one look at this and elects to leave. She flies back to the town, where eventually Brenden meets her hours later. The two fly back to Nairobi together, the last sane, surviving members of the night.
The Yellow King Company 